@#76 ... Or have we already been facing such an assault? ...

To wit...

As a follow-up ...

Why might Pres Trump apparently need such a safe space to retreat to?

imo, is this a preview to what we might see in early January 2029?

And what will Amazon's AI do with the video the camera records?

Who might it be shared with?

Will the video be able to be taken and used in court proceedings?

Is Amazon just extending the Flock's Big Surveillance goals into the home?

More from the article ...

... The camera speaker ships today for $249.99. Hold up a board game box and Alexa can explain the rules, or show it a box of cereal and it can help you reorder it, according to Amazon. Owners can also check in on the room from the Alexa app while they are away. The Echo Studio without a camera stays on sale at $219.99. ...

@#43 ... Eberly is here to tell you we've ...

Nah.

My view is that the eberly alias, like other far less capable current alias (hey Jeffy), is here just to troll for replies ...

But that is A Good Thing because those replies generate ad revenue to support this site.

:)

@#1 ... Time Warp ...

Back in the day, I remember reading that Mick Jagger had been considered for the lead on the film.

imo, Mr Curry's performance in that role hit it out of the park.

Mr Jagger's fame would not carry him to even come close to Mr Curry's supreme performance in the role.

OK, so the Trump admin went for the headline that it sold the missiles to Ukraine.

But has delayed the delivery so that Pres Putin can gain yet more advantage?

@#3

... and speaking of Pres Trump, his recent, I'll say, supportive comments about a male candidate's derriere leads me to this tune ...

... ICE paid almost $500 million to acquire a private prison in Minnesota that was previously offered to the state for just $75 million, according to a report. ...

OK, this leads me to ask a question ...

WTF is up with Pres Trump's wild spending spree?

If GOP's Paxton cannot win Texas by a significant margin, something is very different.

That is all I'll say at this point.

@#75 ... Only if due to a series of massive failures. ...

While I may generally agree with your comment, I also add that ~America's next war~ may have already reached US soil.

I am not referring to foreign soldiers entering our shores.

I am talking about foreign cyber-soldiers entering our networked systems.

A.k.a. cyber-warfare.

Europe is already facing such an assault from Russia.

How soon before we face such an assault?

Or have we already been facing such an assault?

@#78 ... The arrogance of such an individual knows no bounds ...

Oh, I agree. The arrogance of Pres Trump knows no bounds.

But, what else does yer current trolling got?

@#77 ... At issue is whether this was a conspiracy to mislead voters or interfere with a fair election. ...

If I may be so bold to alter that statement ...

At issue is whether this was an unproven conspiracy to mislead voters or interfere with a fair election.

Stated differently, the Trump administration, and its supporters, have stated many things they think to be true.

But the Courts seem to be of a differing opinion.

That aside, yeah, we now seem to be at the beginning of a legal fight that may delay the rsults of the Alaska election.

Which, imo, is the actual goal here.

Throw uncertainty onto our elections.

imo, there's more to come. Stay tuned.

@#2 ... "poorly formatted excel spreadsheet with missing and jumbled information." ...

So, Pres Trump's DoJ does not even seem to know how to use MS Office Excel?

I guess that is what may occur when Pres Trump seems to have a preference for hiring adulating toadies instead of qualified people.

But my opinion may be wrong. ...

Still more from the article ...

... Since then, county election officials have been sifting through the lists. According to some county officials, the results so far seem to confirm their skepticism of the Trump administration's claims.

In Butte County, situated just north of the Sacramento Valley, officials received a list of 47 names from federal prosecutors late Friday. The county's top election official, Keaton Denlay, told ABC News that he personally reviewed what he called the Justice Department's "poorly formatted excel spreadsheet with missing and jumbled information."

Denlay found that 32 of the 47 individuals "are not on Butte county's active voter rolls," and another seven "did not have sufficient information for me to match to our voter list with confidence." ...

More from the article ...

... The Trump administration has sued the state of California and threatened other states over the issue of noncitizen voting, a longtime concern of the president and his administration despite experts saying it is already illegal and "vanishingly rare." Federal officials have demanded action after presenting to states what they say are lists of noncitizens who are registered to vote, gathered using a combination of federal immigration data and commercially available state voter registration rolls.

But in the final weeks of the campaign, as the administration implores state and local officials, both in and out of court, to investigate those individuals, the lists -- and the grandiose numbers Trump and his allies publicly trumpeted -- appear to be buckling under the scrutiny of state and local election officials.

In California, Washington and Nevada -- and beyond -- state and local officials say the lists provided by the Justice Department appear grossly inaccurate and justify the states' reluctance to purge individuals from registration lists so close to the election. ...

'Lack of credibility'

The Trump administration initially accused California of harboring over 190,000 noncitizen voters on its rolls over the summer. That sum was whittled down to 20,000 by the time the Justice Department filed its lawsuit against the state last week.

It's not clear why the administration reduced the figure so dramatically. But even the smaller figure seems inflated, according to state and local officials. ...

Anyone want to discuss the actual topic of this thread?

@#3

... America's next war could reach US soil, top Army general warns ...

So, if these preparations are taking place, what tactics might Pres Trump have in mind against Iran?

A ground invasion?

Why else might the military have a need to prepare for the burial of American soldiers until that subsequently could be repatriated to the US?

@#75 ... Putting this guy on the ballot is not a stunt? ...

Is it a stunt, or is it illegal?

If the former ... well, welcome to politics in America.

If the latter ... prosecute, but with evidence, not the usual evidence-starved manned of Pres Trump.

@#53 ... I purchased a 11000watt generator at Costco ...

I have a 1600watt generation that I purchased after SnowTober occurred here in Connecticut in 2011.

20 inches, and more in some areas, of a wet snow of trees that had not yet dropped all their leaves.

Tree limbs plummeted to earth.

I had no power for three days.

So, that caused me to buy the generator that could power two things in my house - the furnace and the refrigerator. That is, keep me warm and keep the food appropriately cold. The generator can supply power to more, but that is the critical requirement. And the generator works for a full day on just one filling of its gas tank!

That generator was most helpful when Hurricane Irene killed power here for three days the following year.